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1999 YRBS Middle School Survey Data

Oregon Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)

1999 Middle School YRBS Questions

Weighted Column Percents | Frequencies

Q88. Thinking back over the last month, in an average week how many hours do you spend in volunteeer work, religious activities, youth groups, music, drama or special school activities such as year book, both at school and away from school?
Weighted Column Percents

TOTAL Grade
6th grade 7th grade 8th grade
TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 hours 33.5 31.6 35.0 33.8
1 - 2 hours 24.4 28.5 23.5 21.3
3 - 5 hours 16.6 16.6 16.5 16.5
6 - 10 hours 10.5 9.3 10.2 11.9
11 - 17 hours 5.3 5.1 5.0 5.8
18 - 24 hours 3.3 3.1 3.4 3.5
25 or more hours 6.4 5.8 6.3 7.2
Female Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 hours 28.6 28.0 29.7 28.1
1 - 2 hours 25.3 29.9 24.7 21.7
3 - 5 hours 17.6 17.1 17.6 18.2
6 - 10 hours 11.8 10.2 11.3 13.7
11 - 17 hours 5.9 5.6 5.9 6.2
18 - 24 hours 3.6 3.3 3.6 4.0
25 or more hours 7.1 5.9 7.2 8.1
Male Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
0 hours 38.5 35.1 40.4 39.7
1 - 2 hours 23.4 27.0 22.4 20.9
3 - 5 hours 15.5 16.2 15.5 14.7
6 - 10 hours 9.2 8.5 9.0 10.1
11 - 17 hours 4.7 4.7 4.2 5.3
18 - 24 hours 3.0 2.9 3.2 3.1
25 or more hours 5.8 5.7 5.4 6.2

Q88. Thinking back over the last month, in an average week how many hours do you spend in volunteeer work, religious activities, youth groups, music, drama or special school activities such as year book, both at school and away from school?
Frequencies

TOTAL Grade
6th grade 7th grade 8th grade
TOTAL 18,419 4,635 5,263 8,521
0 hours 5,884 1,351 1,758 2,775
1 - 2 hours 4,187 1,230 1,179 1,778
3 - 5 hours 2,888 714 831 1,343
6 - 10 hours 1,861 388 496 977
11 - 17 hours 955 220 258 477
18 - 24 hours 584 125 167 292
25 or more hours 1,154 269 307 578
Refused/Unknown 906 338 267 301
Female Total 9,293 2,305 2,681 4,307
0 hours 2,535 590 759 1,186
1 - 2 hours 2,213 647 639 927
3 - 5 hours 1,584 374 454 756
6 - 10 hours 1,057 220 278 559
11 - 17 hours 521 120 146 255
18 - 24 hours 325 66 95 164
25 or more hours 639 140 170 329
Refused/Unknown 419 148 140 131
Male Total 9,126 2,330 2,582 4,214
0 hours 3,349 761 999 1,589
1 - 2 hours 1,974 583 540 851
3 - 5 hours 1,304 340 377 587
6 - 10 hours 804 168 218 418
11 - 17 hours 434 100 112 222
18 - 24 hours 259 59 72 128
25 or more hours 515 129 137 249
Refused/Unknown 487 190 127 170